Circumcise your hearts and do not be stiff-necked any longer

Deuteronomy 10:12-11:17

And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?

Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today. Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer. For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. 

Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven. It is a land the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.

Remember God's love, his power, his provision, his law, his judgments. ANd let that memory keep you humble, faithful, obedient.

Why?

This generation of Israel did not experience the event in Egypt and in the wild desert. But circumcise your hearts. Keep our heart is more important than others.

The history of Israel has proved that the Lord is great and loves us. God is full of love and righteousness forever.

Fear the Lord and observed his decrees is the way to prosper and peace.

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神要求的只有一件事，你敬畏耶和華─你的神，遵行他的道，愛他，盡心盡性事奉他，遵守他的誡命律例。

因為神愛他們，所以揀選以色列人。

埃及地。你在那裡撒種，用腳澆灌：必須用腳踩水車灌溉，所以用腳灌溉。應許之地，天降雨水。

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How?

Remember what the Lord has done on me and do my best to proclaim the gospel of the Lord and honor His Great Name.